Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to defenestrate
Participle: defenestrated
Gerund: defenestrating
Indicative
Present
| I | defenestrate |
| you | defenestrate |
| he;she;it | defenestrates |
| we | defenestrate |
| you | defenestrate |
| they | defenestrate |
Perfect
| I | have defenestrated |
| you | have defenestrated |
| he;she;it | has defenestrated |
| we | have defenestrated |
| you | have defenestrated |
| they | have defenestrated |
Past
| I | defenestrated |
| you | defenestrated |
| he;she;it | defenestrated |
| we | defenestrated |
| you | defenestrated |
| they | defenestrated |
Pluperfect
| I | had defenestrated |
| you | had defenestrated |
| he;she;it | had defenestrated |
| we | had defenestrated |
| you | had defenestrated |
| they | had defenestrated |
Future
| I | will defenestrate |
| you | will defenestrate |
| he;she;it | will defenestrate |
| we | will defenestrate |
| you | will defenestrate |
| they | will defenestrate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have defenestrated |
| you | will have defenestrated |
| he;she;it | will have defenestrated |
| we | will have defenestrated |
| you | will have defenestrated |
| they | will have defenestrated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | defenestrate |
| you | defenestrate |
| he;she;it | defenestrate |
| we | defenestrate |
| you | defenestrate |
| they | defenestrate |
Perfect
| I | have defenestrated |
| you | have defenestrated |
| he;she;it | have defenestrated |
| we | have defenestrated |
| you | have defenestrated |
| they | have defenestrated |
Imperfect
| I | defenestrated |
| you | defenestrated |
| he;she;it | defenestrated |
| we | defenestrated |
| you | defenestrated |
| they | defenestrated |
Pluperfect
| I | had defenestrated |
| you | had defenestrated |
| he;she;it | had defenestrated |
| we | had defenestrated |
| you | had defenestrated |
| they | had defenestrated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would defenestrate |
| you | would defenestrate |
| he;she;it | would defenestrate |
| we | would defenestrate |
| you | would defenestrate |
| they | would defenestrate |
Perfect
| I | would have defenestrated |
| you | would have defenestrated |
| he;she;it | would have defenestrated |
| we | would have defenestrated |
| you | would have defenestrated |
| they | would have defenestrated |
Imperative
| you | defenestrate |
| we | Let's defenestrate |
| you | defenestrate |
Verbs conjugated like 'defenestrate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'defenestrate'
fenestrate,
infenestrate,
defederate,
degenerate,
dehonestate,
demonstrate,
desequestrate,
detenebrate,
devenustate,
repenetrate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin dē
3. Etruscan *𐌚𐌍𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌀 (*fnestra)bor.?
4. Latin fenestra
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
6. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
8. Proto-Italic *-tiō
9. Latin -tiō
10. Latin -ātiō
11. New Latin dēfenestrātiōder.
12. English defenestrationbf.
13. English defenestrate
14. First attested in 1904; back-formation from defenestration on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from New Latin dē- (“out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -ātiō (“-ation”).
Verbs referencing "defenestrate"
Dutch
defenestreren.
Sample Sentences
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I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies! [1998 September 25, Lane Smith, quoted in "TFK Q&A: Lane Smith and Jon Scieszka", in Time for Kids]
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The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3). [1998, Barry J. Fraser, Kenneth George Tobin, International Handbook of Science Education, volume 2:]
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Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ... [2001, The Economist, volume 381, numbers 8498-8501, page 42:]
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According to the guidebooks, they do it so strenuously that women would very much like to defenestrate the custom. [2004, Mary Carey, Kim Berquist, Writing from a Small Country: Anthology of the Creative Writing Club, Luxembourg:]
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This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC,
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Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-) [1998 December 17, Darren Salt , "Re: Coding speccy games in the good 'ole days", message-ID <48B60EA729%[email protected]>, comp.sys.sinclair, Usenet http://google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/8b00481a8be589d2]
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◦ Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon. [2001 July 21, "Packet Rat" (pseudonym), "Judge Rat calls for a Microsoft defenestration", on GCN: Government Computer News]
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2007 May 16, Richard Stallman, speech, Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works,
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Now of course people who want freedom shouldn't use Windows at all, you've got to defenestrate your computer, which means either you throw Windows out of the computer, or you throw the computer out the window.